exasperated - Story 47388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cafe crackled with tension. Across the small table, Ben watched the other man’s face turn a shade of red that matched the latte he'd been sipping earlier. He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes, a sensation like a tightening vise. “He told me,” the other man began, his voice strained, “he was going on a business trip.” Ben felt his own jaw clench. This wasn't just a date gone wrong; it was a cosmic joke.

Emotion: exasperated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exasperated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 exasperated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exasperated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exasperated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.435
`l`	0.378
`P`	0.331
`que`	0.320
`la`	0.269

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.433
`gradually`	-0.254
`soon`	-0.248
`unfolding`	-0.216
`joyful`	-0.216